title: The nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase (NOX) homologues NOX1 and NOX2/gp91(phox) mediate hepatic fibrosis in mice.
abstract: Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase (NOX) is a multicomponent enzyme that mediates electron transfer from nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate to molecular oxygen, which leads to the production of superoxide. NOX2/gp91(phox) is a catalytic subunit of NOX expressed in phagocytic cells. Several homologues of NOX2, including NOX1, have been identified in nonphagocytic cells. We investigated the contributory role of NOX1 and NOX2 in hepatic fibrosis. Hepatic fibrosis was induced in wild-type (WT) mice, NOX1 knockout (NOX1KO) mice, and NOX2 knockout (NOX2KO) mice by way of either carbon tetrachloride (CCl(4) ) injection or bile duct ligation (BDL). The functional contribution of NOX1 and NOX2 in endogenous liver cells, including hepatic stellate cells (HSCs), and bone marrow (BM)-derived cells, including Kupffer cells (KCs), to hepatic reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation and hepatic fibrosis was assessed in vitro and in vivo using NOX1 or NOX2 BM chimeric mice. Hepatic NOX1 and NOX2 messenger RNA expression was increased in the two experimental mouse models of hepatic fibrosis. Whereas NOX1 was expressed in HSCs but not in KCs, NOX2 was expressed in both HSCs and KCs. Hepatic fibrosis and ROS generation were attenuated in both NOX1KO and NOX2KO mice after CCl(4) or BDL. Liver fibrosis in chimeric mice indicated that NOX1 mediates the profibrogenic effects in endogenous liver cells, whereas NOX2 mediates the profibrogenic effects in both endogenous liver cells and BM-derived cells. Multiple NOX1 and NOX2 components were up-regulated in activated HSCs. Both NOX1- and NOX2-deficient HSCs had decreased ROS generation and failed to up-regulate collagen α1(I) and transforming growth factor β in response to angiotensin II.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Both NOX1 and NOX2 have an important role in hepatic fibrosis in endogenous liver cells, including HSCs, whereas NOX2 has a lesser role in BM-derived cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Yong-Han
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Paik
authors.forename: Keiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Iwaisako
authors.forename: Ekihiro
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Seki
authors.forename: Sayaka
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Inokuchi
authors.forename: Bernd
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schnabl
authors.forename: Christoph H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Osterreicher
authors.forename: Tatiana
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kisseleva
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Brenner
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001652:Bile Ducts; D002251:Carbon Tetrachloride / Q000494:pharmacology; D055166:Hepatic Stellate Cells / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D008026:Ligation; D008099:Liver / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000209:etiology*; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000502:physiology*; D051379:Mice; D018345:Mice, Knockout; D009247:NADH, NADPH Oxidoreductases / Q000502:physiology*; D000074624:NADPH Oxidase 1; D000074662:NADPH Oxidase 2; D019255:NADPH Oxidases / Q000502:physiology*; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species
chemical_list: D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species; D002251:Carbon Tetrachloride; D009247:NADH, NADPH Oxidoreductases; C488842:Cybb protein, mouse; D000074624:NADPH Oxidase 1; D000074662:NADPH Oxidase 2; D019255:NADPH Oxidases; C000614711:NOX1 protein, mouse